🏊 It’s been a long time coming, but the Algonac City Pool revamp is nearly complete! At the July 1 council meeting, officials discussed plans for its long-awaited reopening.

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Making 2FA mandatory for all admin and mods on the forums. Tempted to extend that to regular users.

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Still working on fleshing out Forum topics on the five forums I built. So far no one has joined but that's fine at the moment.

Once I am happy with it I can find mods and another admin. Maybe. But I also want to build on my content Sites as well. Eventually someone will get ActivityPub working.

It makes keeping Community for comments and such seperate from the sites so I don't have to let unneeded users on their.

Keeping it nice and working.

So, I got all the forums I wanted to build setup. Eventually I will probably need to shell out for a more expensive server, but for now this will have to do.

I just can't afford any more right now. And I still want to build some pages so I can afford more resources.

Working on Secondary setups now. Cloud storage and things of that nature.

I think I got federated connections properly configured though.

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Working on the Communities today after I get my workout in.

Server power is gonna cost. I am gonna need to figure out how to make some money here at some point.

Even if I take donations, I want to make a bit more than what break even would be if only just to eventually increase server power for reliability.

This doesn't take into account my desire to start making some kind of content, but Google isn't pushing people towards sites.

Anyone have thoughts on this?

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Building forums this week.

Using NodeBB, and should have 4, maybe 5 ready to go by end of the week.

It being on ActivityPub means the forums will be open for any to follow.

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So I didn't quiet succeed in my goals of getting the forums and the #PixelFed instance up. I just kept getting distracted by shit.

Got to try to dispose of 4 containers of Prestone DexCool orange coolant. The vans old owner was going to use it to change the radiator fluid out but we made sure there was none in there and used standard Universal Green.

Now we need to properly dispose of the stuff we got.

Tail pipe is still pumping put white smoke. Dad thinks it's just condensation from the system. And we do leave it shut down a lot. But I feel it would have reduced by now after being started a few days in a row if that was the case.

Could be stale gas, the tank hasn't been refilled since we got this thing several months ago. This is the option I prefer. Once I get the Tires changed and maybe the Brakes serviced I can drive around until the tank is empty then run a tank of Premium with Additive through and maybe clean it out. And Oil change will give me more information as well.

The worst case scenario, and the one I am afraid is the actual problem, is an internal coolant leak. This would mean the engine itself needs repair and could run into the thousands of Dollars. I don't mind it if it gets the van on the road and I need a full diagnostic anyways, but this isn't the sort of thing I want to deal with.

Once the PixelFed instance in online on Wanderers-Waypoint.com and I have confirmed it's properly federated I will probably move these updates there. But I have to ensure Federation works as that domain used to be a Mastodon instance and I self-destructed it.

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I am working on rebuilding one of my communities. Originally it was a small fanfiction thing but as I have another fan related domain I decided to make this one a Dark Fiction site and community.

Thing is that Dark Fiction can get... Dark.

So while I am working on the ideas and which software to use for community, I need to figure out what is allowed for rules and discussion.

Obviously moderation would need to be far more lax than say Mastodon.art or anything from Europe. You can't start banning everyone who talks about dark topics if they follow that topic to its darker logical conclusion.

Obviously Harrassment, KYS statements, Actual Racism, and a few other things should be banned. But discussion of how a racists bigoted character might address something shouldn't be.

I live in the US so 1st Amendment is pretty open ended.

Figured I would put this out to discuss cause it is such a disconnect between what most people would generally expect from an instance due to the subject matter.